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UEA Broad is pretty well known, the only lake actually inside the city boundaries, and right next to the River (which has some decent chub in itself) If you check the link above I've put in, there is season ticket costs etc, although night permits are extra. The whole of the Wensum and Yare valley's did get hit quite heavily by otters, chub, barbel, carp, pretty much everything has changed, although they have been changing for years, roach disease, rise of chub numbers etc.

From memory you had to join to fish it http://www.ueasaac.co.uk/permits/4548903703 Some good fish, but it has like many waters in Norfolk had otter problems.

I would really like to get myself another Canon Eos, but can't afford it. In the end I bought myself a secondhand Fuji Finepix A330 through Ebay for around £15! It plugs into my iPad, with a Camera Connection kit, that will take the SD cards and a direct link to the camera so I can upload my pics easily. The camera is easy to use, has 3x optical zoom, 3.2 mega pixels, and with an adaptor will fit onto Bankstick or tripod. You may find newer Fuji versions are available, but this one does me. The downside is that I have to use self timer rather than a remote trigger. I put the camera on the bankstick, sort out my background with the mat, and then work out the frame size, so preferably I don't cut off my head on pictures. I then get the fish in the landing net and lift it onto the mat, unhook, weigh etc, get net out the way. The self timer gives me around 10 seconds to get back to fish, lift and pic. It can be a pain if you have a fish that wants to wrestle though. At night it is even more important to make sure that your background and frame size is sorted, and (unlike my last pics) make sure your flash is set to prevent red eye. With a bit of practise you will get it right, but the random is always a wriggling fish.

Unfortunately I don't have Sir Bobby Charlton's, but here is Rooney's list before the other day

See the one on the right? That's my preferred football...

Grief, can't believe it, another England win. Sam Marino last week was as easy, but tonight they actually gave a half decent performance against a half decent team. The first half though, bit of a urgh, no show, yet in the second they woke up. Kane, hasn't scored for Spurs this season, yet two class goals for his country. It's all about records though, you wouldn't have bet against Rooney taking any penalty would you. I do however think this was the most important goal of the night though https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=946114085427174

On rare occasions I use a Chod rig I still use Amnesia in 20lb.

I heard a 16 year old lad in East London was asked what he had in his pocket today... His answer, 'iPhone, iPod, and Ozil'. Reece Oxford Result for West Ham, well played

I hadn't thought about it, but stopped using it when I started thinking about lead weights and fishing, realising that using lead between size 8 shot and 1.1 oz is illegal anyway.

This is an addition for a couple of reasons. The first is because I remembered to photograph these to show the cheaper way over the carp anglers mugged off version. Or a simple pop-up rig showing the weight in action. I have put the hook on knotless knotted on a coated braid, with the hook end being stripped. The rig ring has a pop-up tied on with dental floss Is that simple enough?

Just posting on the old thread brings it back to the top But I'll make life easier by merging the two together

Tim, I know you have problems with some knot tying, and remembered my other post below, I noticed something I do when making the hair and hair loop, which may be of some use to you: When you tie the Uni knot loop at the end, have your little finger of the hand holding the line go through the loop as you make the turns with your other hand. Keep it in their until you tighten up.

I don't think you are the first to query about this lake, I seem to remember a thread previously about it a while back. I'll have a search for the thread see if there was anything on it. 'Twas yourself! http://www.carp.com/topic/20280-manningtree-lake/?hl=manningtree

I'd be really interested to see pics if you have any of how it sits in the water.

Reading back my first answer, I must apologise, the first line 'honestly?' may seem slightly sarcastic, not my intention at all, just how I thought it through in my head as I started answering. For a quite high pop-up, it is only recently that I really started thinking how a pop-up sits in relation to the hook, either leant over or straight up. With a plain straight pop-up tight to the hook, I think the hook sits naturally at an angle, but I really do need to tank test to be sure.

Honestly? How do the fish feed? Do they suck the hook in, or do they clamp down on it? See question below How close to the bottom is the pop-up? Do the fish clamp down and pick up the bait from close range? All might have some relevance as how you fish it? If the fish solely suck the bait then straight up may be preferable as in the bottom pic. If they also come in from above, the bait is low to the lakebed, and the fish almost pin the bait, clamping down on a bait individually, then at an angle, but it may also give possibility of hooking if some fish suck.

Put the lot in a bag, pellets, hook, bait, braided hooklink rig and lead.

I used to spend plenty of time walking round during the day with a stalking rod, plenty of floaters, and a few bottom baits. Certain areas I knew would produce a fish or two on a bottom bait during the day. To the right of peg 1, which meant you had to creep through the rhododendron bush, was a favoured spot of mine for fishing with a float and a bottom bait. You were fishing underneath a fallen tree, the whole trunk was stretching from bank to bank, but I think it eventually rotted through. The back channels, either side of the Plateau swim were favoured areas of mine for floater fishing, and the furthest channel if on walking from the meadow through the right hand gate, at the T junction (you'll see why I call it that) or the end of the tiny bay, was another couple of spots for bottom bait stalking (just take your skeeter repellant there, even in full daylight). Margin spots fishing two rods, did work very well for some anglers in the day, but because I was constantly mobile did not do so well myself with that type of static fishing. However, when I stopped fishing Taverham around 2005 (my goodness, is it really that long ago ), it was taking the carp two days in some swims to get comfortable taking baits, the lake was really suffering 'weekend syndrome'.

I do exactly this, with dental floss, or even mono,and it can also be used as a way of turning a standard bottom bait rig into a snowman set-up as well. Bearing in mind I very rarely use bait stops, and nearly always currently fish with snowman baits. Tie a uni knot loop in the dental floss or mono, and then put your pop-up in that loop and pull the loop tight. Then after you gave put your standard bottom bait on the normal hair, With your two tag ends of the extra bit, tie a reef or double granny knot through the end of the loop, and make sure that is pulled tight. Then, very carefully, to prevent the granny/reef knot pulling free, lighter blob the two tag ends. The pop-up acts as both a bait stop, and also gives you the required buoyancy, et voila snowman

Plenty of good points in the thread, so I'll add my tuppence worth, probably going over some; I look at my hook holds, lost fish and play with hair length accordingly. A fish hooked at the very edge of the lip, or lost during playing, (especially early in the fight), I usually lengthen the hair. The bait is not usually being taken comfortably enough to 'pull' the hook far enough into the mouth to get a good hook-up. A fish hooked deeply, or the hook has scratched down the mouth from deep, the hair is usually too long. If the hook is dead centre of the bottom lip, perfectly hooked, perfect hair length. How or even what you feed can or could change the hooking potential, a large bed of groundbait or particles means if they are feeding comfortably you can shorten the hair (and/or rig) length. Your lead arrangement can also give you some different possibilities, semi-fixed leads may possibly give you worse hookholds than a running lead; not always, but tight lines and wary fish who are used to dealing with rigs in a very similar scenario can mean they can deal with the hook. Lead clips are not always the answer. Run rings sometimes are! Also small fish can disrupt what you think. If small fish are a pain, not just silvers, but smaller carp, you may find that with longer hairs the bait can be taken back and they are munching on the bait without the hook even going into the mouth. If it is silver fish, then stop feeding so much loose groundbait, or small particle, stop attracting them. If it is smaller carp, but with the chance of a larger fish, then think about a sliding or extending hair, which was actually one of the first developments from the original hair rig. The other was the D rig! A snowman with a single piece of fake corn as the topper :lol: It likely actually takes 4or5 pieces of fake corn to neutralise balance on a hook, so to add a boilie as said, however it lies, may well be on the tilt, or as local dialect, it's on the huh! Strangely I have never had a fish take a snowman bait when I have used an individual piece of corn as the topper bait over a boilie. Change to a pop-up over the same bottom bait, I'd lose count of the fish I have caught on it.

If I said what I know about Taswood, I could be upsetting a few people, but it is not all it is cracked up to be, as a result of what I know, I will never go there. If you look at Norfolk Lakes, there is a very detailed write up on Taverham Mills. Catch 22, after draining, clearing it was restocked with Dutch fish about 20 years ago, changing its name from Lyng Easthaugh in the process. Some big fish in there now, and has been written about by a lot of people. Recently in the last few years or so developed around Scole and Dickleburgh you have Airfield and Spitfire lakes. One I think is day ticket, the other syndicate, I know various publications have mentioned them

I have had issues with mono and fluorocarbon links being worn through when using a knotless knot, curved shank hooks like Muggas, Fangs etc being the worst. Here we go, I hate the word, but maybe look at a Chod style hook with an eye that pulls away from the shank, an out turned eye, as opposed to an inturned. The alternative, but quite fiddly method is to knot the hook on, and then tie on a D section.

A clear area, whether sand, gravel or clay, basically any hard area, I would avoid the bomb on the end of the line if I possibly could, much preferring my standard running or semi-fixed pendant leads. The helicopter set-ups do cast better for long distance fishing, so if I was casting maximum distance I may consider that lead arrangement. Even then, I am still convinced that you need a tight line.

Back to basics again today, free lining dog biscuits for three more chub, 2lb ish (which I didn't weigh), 3lb2oz, and 4lb2oz. I got stung to pieces, and wet feet, but when they look like this the biggest, who cares? Just noticed my unhooking mat,

Basic, simple and will work. It has caught fish for many years, and will continue to catch. There is only one thing I would change, either attaching the lead on a run ring, or instead of using a single rubber bead to protect the know I would use two. The reason for this is so the lead does not rub against the hook link, which may cause it to break over time